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Past Bexhill-on-Sea Event: VOL 5

VOL 5

December 12, 2016

@
De La Warr Pavilion

Join us for a series of succinct and stimulating insights by artists, authors, researchers, activists, advocates and enthusiasts based in the S.E. region. This is an informal evening of thinking and drinking, the bar is open from 6.30 pm with presentations starting at 7.00pm. Share knowledge and ignite new ways of thinking! Please purchase tickets in advance from http://www.dlwp.com/as we regularly sell out.

PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

Carlotta Luke gives an in intriguing insight into her photographic practice. Over a long period of time, Carlotta has documented the renovation of a derelict building, photographing progress through all seasons and weather conditions.

Sally Hemmings volunteers with Bexhill Dementia Action Alliance and raises awareness by informing communities on how to understand this dementia and be more supportive towards people living with dementia and their carers.

Artist Lucy Ayliffe performs an original text based on interviews with her peers, a surgeon specializing in labiaplasty and copy from a campaign advertising men's clothing. The conflated and 'cut up' views reflect a sense of anxiety and confusion often felt when overwhelmed by a constant feed of sexualized and 'perfected' images creating unrealistic expectations of how women should look and behave.

ActivistAndrea Needham’s actions to disarm a warplane which was to be sold by British Aerospace to the Indonesian Military, led to her spending six months in prison and writing the book ‘The Hammer Blow: How 10 women disarmed a warplane.